She called on Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to pilot the Social Impact Bond model as a new approach to prison rehabilitation and reducing reoffending.

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Bond says this model had a shortcoming though, in that once the healing agent was used, it couldn't be replenished.

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Two others, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers, are leaving their model-bond currency allocation untouched Credit Suisse is as much in love with the dollar as ever.

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The dominant model, in which the bond issuer pays the rater directly, encouraged cosiness between the two.

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Google changed the age-old bond of handset manufacturers and their operating systems and created a new and profitable business model.

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This new model blended new technology, user-centric design principles, and process innovation to strengthen the bond between banker and client.

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Following this model, you could invest your funds in Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund.

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This is a weighted average of short-term interest rates, corporate-bond yields, share prices and the trade-weighted dollar, with the weights derived from the Fed's model.

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But in the official model used by the European Commission, imposing a tax of 0.1 per cent on stocks and bond trades and 0.01 per cent on all derivatives is found to reduce long-run gross domestic product in the EU by 1.76 per cent.

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